Tech

A walkthrough for the process of implementing the Open Access Button on Summon's no-results page.

A step-by-step on PDF redaction using Imagemagick and Paint as tools for a foolproof process. Also a look at the Goddard News historical project.

Intended for folks whose institutions may be using traject to index their MARC records and want to be able to test fields/subfields locally. It's also another way you can engage with and understand your MARC data.

A walkthrough, with screenshots, of how to register a new batch processing operation in MarcEdit 7.

A reflection on overpromising as a pattern in library technology and teh gender dynamics of who's left apologizing.

A challenge we encountered in our Bento Box library discovery project: how do we write helpful, caring messages for searches with no results?

A brief overview of how to write a useful tech support ticket, aimed at an audience of librarians of varying tech levels.

An introduction to the basic concepts of RDF, how it can be expressed, and what its potential actually means. This post is aimed at metadata librarians.

Presentation notes and code from a process used to create a local linked data reconciliation service and augment other local metadata in Fedora.

Follow-up to the Introduction to SQL for Librarians, this tutorial sets you up with an easy online space to practice your SQL queries.